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inconsistent (plot holes?)

posted 8 years ago by azivolic
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So in the biggest part of the movie, when light hits Diana she disappears. But at the end, it actually burns her (if you remember the scene where her hand is burned).
AND throughout the movie we see Diana in all kinds of faint light, but when the boyfriend shows her the cellphone screen, she disappears. This two things kind of bothered me.
But all in all, I found this movie really entertaining. I wouldn't call it a masterpiece or anything, but it was scary enough to make me sleep with lights on that night :D

[–] Brippy_Smuppers 8 years ago

The light that burned Diana was a UV light. The daughter specifically mentioned that Diana could be seen in the UV light.

Pay more attention next time :o)

[–] azivolic 8 years ago

Nope. She only said she could be seen in the black light, that she doesn't disappear.
The light that burned her was the flashlight when her brother came to that part of the basement. And later when her hand was trapped by the door, she burned her with the policeman's flashlight.
UV light didn't hurt her, it just made her able to burn cause she couldn't disappear, but at that point it didn't make that much sense at all. At least not to me.

[–] gamachameleon 8 years ago

It kind of made sense to me. Here's how I saw it. They had established in the flashbacks that light burned her, so with the blacklight essentially binding her from disappearing, she was vulnerable to light again. And she had appeared in dim light, but in those cases it wasn't direct. The cell phone light was aimed directly at her which caused the automatic vanishing "reflex" I guess.

[–] bigBang8 8 years ago

Whats not to understand. UV reveals her. Would suck if she was impossible to harm.

[–] gtu2004 8 years ago

@Brippy_Smuppers: omg you're so dumb...and you have the balls to tell people to pay more attention next time?